I grew up in it, so I guess it never really seemed hidden to me.

[But most people don't know. None of his brothers in arms did. They never did figure out how he was so good a sniper in the night. But with a tiger's sense of sight and smell, it got easier.]

Only advice is: if you can manage it, stay the hell out of politics. Mundane is bad enough. Ours? Are a nightmare.